- South Korea: Officials order evacuation after reported white phosphorus leak at US base
Source: ABC News
“South Korean authorities on Tuesday briefly ordered civilians to evacuate after what they described as a white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul. Officials in the city of Pyeongtaek urged nearby residents to move to a safe location and avoid skin exposure after the leak at the Osan Air Base was detected at around 5 p.m. They lifted the evacuation order several hours later, saying decontamination work had been completed, according to text messages sent out by the city. … In a statement, the U.S. 51st Fighter Wing did not mention a leakage of white phosphorus but said it established a 1,000-foot (300-meter) safety cordon around the base ‘due to a ground mishap and out of an abundance of caution’ to protect the base and the local populace. It said reports of a general evacuation of the air base were false.” (07/28/26)
- UK: Lyft and Baidu start testing robotaxis in London
Source: Engadget
“As it promised last year, Baidu has started testing its robotaxis in London along with partners Lyft and Freenow, the companies said in a press release. Baidu’s Apollo Go RT6 will start appearing in the UK capital (with test drivers aboard to start with), while Lyft and and Freenow, the German taxi company Lyft now owns, will take care of booking passengers starting next year. The trials are part of the partnership between Lyft and Baidu, with the aim of eventually deploying thousands of autonomous vehicles across Europe. To expedite that plan, Lyft acquired Freenow last year to take advantage of its large taxi network operating in the UK and Germany.” (07/28/26)
https://www.engadget.com/2224882/lyft-and-baidu-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london/
- Poll: SCOTUS approval hits record low
Source: CNBC
“The Supreme Court’s job approval rating among all Americans has hit a record low, as support for the high court by Republicans sharply dropped in 2026, a new Gallup poll has found. Just 33% of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, Gallup found. That is a 6-percentage-point drop from the 39% who approved of its work in July 2025, which was the prior low-water mark for approval of the court. A record high of 61% of Americans disapprove of the court, according to Gallup, which has been polling the public’s approval of the Supreme Court for 26 years. That is up from a disapproval rate of 52% last September.” (07/28/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/supreme-court-approval-poll-gallup-republicans-trump.html
- Uganda: Regime declares country free of Ebola after last patient was discharged in mid-June
Source: Seattle Times
“Ugandan authorities said on Tuesday the East African country is ‘free’ of Ebola after the last patient was discharged in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague a remote part of neighboring Congo. Uganda always insisted its outbreak was linked to the larger one that started in eastern Congo’s province of Ituri, which shares a land border with Uganda. … Confirmed cases in Congo have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in an overnight update. Data by Congolese health authorities showed that 1,437 patients have died, in what officials have said is the fastest Ebola outbreak on record.” (07/28/26)
- KY: Beshear ups demand for McConnell health status
Source: CNBC
“Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) demanded that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) verbally address constituents and demonstrate his ability to serve or resign his seat in a blunt letter sent to the senator and his staff. It’s been more than 40 days since 84-year-old conservative stalwart McConnell has appeared outside of pictures released by his office after being hospitalized. His lengthy absence and past health scares are fueling speculation about his capacity to serve. … Under Kentucky law, Senate vacancies — which can occur due to resignation, expulsion or death — are filled by a special election.” [editor’s note: Beshear should schedule the special election on grounds that, if McConnell is even alive, he has constructively resigned – TLK] (07/28/26)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/mcconnell-health-update-beshear-demand-letter
- Powerful quake hits southern Japan, deaths feared in shopping mall blast
Source: Reuters
“A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said authorities were still assessing the full extent of the damage in the area, which was devastated by a deadly quake a decade ago. … Around 300,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation centres, and hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to help with rescue operations as aftershocks continued to rumble in the area, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. Multiple people were unaccounted for after a chimney collapsed at a Nippon Paper Industries factory, broadcaster NHK reported.” (07/28/26)
- Libya: Protesters Storm Key Energy Complex During Demonstrations Over Power Outages
Source: US News & World Report
“Protesters demonstrating against ongoing power outages in Libya stormed a key energy complex overnight and closed gas lines that fuel power plants, which officials warned could trigger a nationwide power blackout. Demonstrators in the capital Tripoli, Zawiya, Misrata and other locations across western Libya have protested for several days over hourslong power outages. They demand better electrical services and have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. As part of the ongoing protests, a group stormed the General Electricity Company’s Mellitah Oil & Gas complex about 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Tripoli. The disruption could cause a complete blackout in multiple areas and ultimately collapse the electricity network, the company warned in a statement Tuesday.” (07/28/26)
- US DOJ reaches settlement with pro-life protester targeted by Biden regime
Source: Fox News
“A Christian father of 11 has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice after facing up to 10 years in prison for protesting at a Tennessee abortion clinic in March 2021. Paul Vaughn was convicted of violating the FACE Act, a federal law that prohibits ‘threats of force, obstruction or inflict property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.’ … The Biden DOJ also added a felony conspiracy charge carrying up to 10.5 years in prison. Vaughn pursued legal action against the Justice Department over his prosecution. He shared first with Fox News Digital that he recently reached a seven-figure settlement with the government agency. … Trump pardoned Vaughn and 23 other pro-life protesters convicted under the FACE Act by the Biden administration Department of Justice.” (07/28/26)
- Johnson & Johnson reaches proposed $5.5 billion talcum powder settlement
Source: United Press International
“U.S. healtcare giant Johnson & Johnson said it has reached a proposed $5.5 billion settlement to resolve most remaining lawsuits alleging its talc-based baby powder and other products caused ovarian cancer. The agreement, announced Monday, follows more than a decade of litigation, including nearly a decade of consolidated federal litigation in New Jersey, along with related cases throughout the country. Tens of thousands of claimants accused Johnson & Johnson of marketing its talc products for feminine hygiene and failing to adequately warn consumers about an alleged cancer risk, despite studies dating back to the 1980s reporting an association between genital talc use and ovarian cancer.” (07/28/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/28/JohnsonJohnson-talcum-lawsuit-agreement/3971785216235/
- Judge orders release of key witness in Texas ICE gang shooting
Source: Houston Chronicle
“A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. immigration authorities to release a key witness in the [murder] of a Mexican homebuilder by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ordered the release of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego from ICE custody within 48 hours, after the judge previously blocked his deportation. Ellison agreed with Rojas Pliego’s argument that his detention violates his Fifth Amendment due process rights. … Rojas Pliego was one of three passengers in a van driven by Lorenzo Araujo Salgado when Araujo Salgado was [murdered] by an ICE officer during a traffic stop. All three passengers were [abducted by the gang].” (07/28/26)
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/judge-release-witness-ice-shooting-22363116.php
- NV: Las Vegas officer who murdered homeowner resigns from department
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
“The Las Vegas police officer who shot and killed a local homeowner after the man called 911 for help has resigned from the department, authorities said. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Officer Alexander Bookman resigned effective March 27. News 3 also reached out to the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, which said Bookman was eligible to return to work but chose to resign. The resignation follows the shooting death of Brandon Durham, 43, who was killed less than 15 seconds after Bookman entered Durham’s home on November 12, 2024. … Body-worn camera video showed Bookman kicking down Durham’s front door, entering the home and shooting Durham as he struggled over a knife with an intruder police identified as Alejandra Boudreaux.” (07/27/26)
- Iran: Regime employees kill two men convicted of killing four police officers in January protests
Source: New York Post
“Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported. A report by Mizanonline. ir, affiliated to the country’s judiciary, identified the two as Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, saying they also set a police station on fire and damaged public properties in the central city of Isfahan, some 250 miles south of the capital, Tehran. The two men are the latest executed from among the tens of thousands who were arrested during a January crackdown on nationwide protests.” (07/28/26)
- Myanmar: Junta approves death sentence in crackdown on scam centres
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Myanmar’s military-backed parliament approved a law on Tuesday that authorises capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres, the speaker said. The ‘Anti-Online Scam Bill’ was passed after MPs approved changes to a draft bill at a combined meeting of the lower and upper houses Tuesday morning in the capital Naypyidaw, Union Parliament Speaker Aung Lin Dwe said during a live television broadcast. Lower house MP Aye Chan confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the death sentence remained in the approved version of the law. … Internet fraud factories have flourished in war-torn Myanmar, part of Southeast Asia’s thriving scam economy, targeting web users worldwide with romance and cryptocurrency investment cons.” (07/28/26)
- Chile: Regime captures fugitive convicted of singer Victor Jara’s murder under Pinochet
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police in Chile say they have captured a man convicted years ago of the kidnapping and murder of popular folk singer Victor Jara under military ruler Augusto Pinochet. Nelson Haase was one of a group of officers given jail terms for the killing, which took place just five days after the coup which brought Pinochet to power in 1973. He was sentenced to 25 years. Haase took flight when the sentence was announced in August 2023 but was found by police on Saturday in the south of the country. Jara, who became famous in the 1960s and 70s for his protest and pacifist songs and supported the ousted socialist president Salvador Allende, was subjected to torture and shot 44 times.” (07/28/26)
- From Biden’s Potemkin Presidency to Trump’s Potemkin War
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard“In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to deceive Catherine the Great about the condition of the peasants she ruled. ‘Potemkin Village,’ according to Time magazine, ‘signifies any deceptive or false construct, conjured often by cruel regimes, to deceive both those within the land and those peering in from outside.’ In Washington a few years ago, the media partnered with the Biden administration to concoct a Potemkin Village to deceive Americans about President Joe Biden’s faltering fitness for office. … Donald Trump is not as physically feeble as Joe Biden, though he is a shadow of his vitality in his first term. But Trump’s delusions on the Iran War seem as bad or worse than any imaginary vision that sent Biden wandering off stage at the wrong time.” (07/28/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/from-bidens-potemkin-presidency-to-trumps-potemkin-war
- Free Sam Tunick — and Make the Privacy Tool He Used the Universal Standard
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“[Sam Tunick] was asked for a PIN to unlock his phone for an illegal, warrantless, and unjustified search. He gave the agents a number … a ‘duress code’ which, upon use by an agent, not by Tunick, erased all data on the phone and performed a complete factory reset rather than unlocking the device. Now, Tunick finds himself facing trial on charges of violating 18 US Code §2232, ‘Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure.’ Two problems with the charge: First, Tunick didn’t destroy or remove anything. The CBP agent who stole his phone did. Second, the law only applies to ‘authorized’ searches and seizures. Absent a warrant issued by a court ‘upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized,’ no such ‘authorization’ exists.” (07/28/26)
- Minority Report: FBI Seeks AI for Political Watch List
Source: Reason
by Daniel Boguslaw“The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason. The request for information for vendors, posted by the FBI’s procurement division in March, solicits potential bidders for a project that would supercharge the Threat Screening Center (TSC) with new predictive AI capabilities—just as its focus moves from Islamist terrorism to domestic dissent. … The terrorist watch list maintained by the TSC is by its very nature a pre-crime entity—it seeks to prosecute crimes before they occur.” (07/28/36)
https://reason.com/2026/07/28/minority-report-fbi-seeks-ai-for-political-watch-list/
- Libertarianism and Poverty
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen“It’s never been clear to me why anyone would think that lowering the tax burden on wealthy people is more important than lowering it on poor people. I think we should lower the burden as much as possible on everyone, consistent with maintaining a just society. … Consider the mortgage deduction: why is it good to give home owners a tax break but not good to give home renters a tax break? What justifies that deviation? I’m not offering an answer; I want us to take the question seriously.” (07/28/26)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/libertarianism-and-poverty
- Don’t want data centers spiking your power bill? Let them build their own grid
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Joseph Verruni & Travis Fisher“Kentuckians are right to worry that data centers will drive up their electric bills. When a single facility demands as much power as Owensboro, someone pays for the new plants and wires that serve it. The General Assembly is still arguing over how to make sure that someone isn’t the residential ratepayer. There is a simple answer, and Kentucky law currently forbids it: let large consumers build their own grid.” (07/28/26)
- The $80 billion healthcare loophole disguised as charity
Source: Washington Examiner
by Jeffrey Mazzella“In 1992, Congress created what’s commonly known as the 340B program in order to help safety-net hospitals and clinics stretch limited resources to serve low-income and uninsured patients. By requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell prescription drugs at steep discounts to qualifying hospitals and clinics, the logic went, the 340B program aimed to keep medications accessible and affordable in underserved communities. Nearly 35 years later, however, the program bears little resemblance to what Congress had in mind, and there’s no reliable way to know whether patients still benefit from its growth.” (07/28/26)
- The Obstruction Doctrine: What Level of Governance Is Appropriate for AI?
Source: Cato Institute
by Kevin T Frazier“The proper delineation of authority between the federal government and the states has often been the subject of controversy in the debate over AI policy. Proponents of both approaches reference the constitutional clauses that support their claim. The reality is that this issue, as with many things in AI, is not a neat list of discrete policy matters. Instead, there is a clear mix of AI policy issues that require national attention—those that are the exclusive domain of the states and the issues that can be taken on by both the federal government and the states (or a collection of states).” [editor’s note: Or, you know, all governments could keep their grubby hands off – TLK] (07/28/26)
https://www.cato.org/blog/obstruction-doctrine-what-level-governance-ai
- Elbridge Colby and the Art of Defending the Indefensible
Source: The Bulwark
by Joseph StiebIt’s one of the worst jobs in Washington: Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, is tasked with explaining Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy to the public. But you could just as easily say he volunteered to launder Trump’s bellicose, bizarre acts by finding an intellectual coherence that isn’t there. The 46-year-old grandson of former CIA Director William Colby and graduate of Harvard and Yale is a born-and-bred courtier to the powerful. He boosted lies about the 2020 election and spent the subsequent four years angling for a position in the next Republican administration. He seems to have convinced himself that Trump would be a vehicle for executing his grand vision of focusing American foreign policy on China while distancing the United States from, in his view, parasitic European allies and a hopelessly troubled Middle East.” (07/28/26)
- We’re Being Plunged Into Dystopia When We Could Be Living In Paradise
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone“All this innovation that’s being poured into finding new ways to conduct mass military slaughter, to surveil and control our entire society, to restrict and manipulate the flow of information, to create artificial scarcity for products that people need, to create artificial demand for products that people do not need, to compete with rival corporations in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires — none of that needs to be happening. Humanity could be using its creativity and cleverness to make the world a better place instead.” (07/28/26)
- Futile Drug-War Murders
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“Maybe some good will come from these military murders. Maybe the American people will finally come to the realization that the drug war is nothing more than a decades-old, ongoing, never-ending deadly, destructive, and corrupt racket that has brought nothing but death and the destruction of liberty and privacy, while making the federal government ever more powerful. Maybe — just maybe — Americans will finally, after decades of drug-war failure, pressure U.S. officials to terminate the abomination of the drug war.” (07/28/26)
- Inside Meta’s Bet on the Dignity of Work
Source: Townhall
by Salena Zito“Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her. Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center technician noticed her work ethic and remarked that she ‘worked too hard to be just working as a custodian,’ and sent her a link to a specialized career training program. Despite waiting two anxious months to hear back, Brooks was accepted, conquering her fears to take her very first airplane flight to Indianapolis for the opportunity.” (07/28/26)
- Planting the Seeds for Progress
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Keli‘i Akina“Like many local business owners, Hawaii’s farmers and ranchers have to deal with rules and regulations that often make it harder to run a successful enterprise. They also share the same concerns about the high cost of housing and how it affects their ability to attract and retain employees. This year, with encouragement from my colleagues at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, the state Legislature took steps in the right direction to help.” (07/28/26)
- Is the US Ready for Radical Change?
Source: Common Dreams
by CJ Polychroniou & Alexandra Boutri“The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends a lower percentage of its GDP on public social expenditure, has no universal healthcare system, union density is at an all-time low, and the average American’s standard of living is in decline, as ‘nearly half of US households can’t make ends meet.’ Of course, delusional President Donald Trump continues to say that the US is the ‘hottest country in the world.’ Is the US, however, ready for radical change?” (07/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-ready-radical-change
- The Eleven-Inch Foot
Source: Law & Liberty
by Amy Peikoff“On July 14, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act by a vote of 308 to 117. The bill would impose Daylight Saving Time year-round, nationwide, and President Donald Trump has promised to sign it. It now sits in the Senate, where Majority Leader John Thune has voiced misgivings about a federal mandate, and Senator Tom Cotton has asked that it never reach the floor. The ensuing debate has been conducted entirely in terms of policy: circadian health versus evening commerce, school-bus-stop safety versus after-work golf. Those are pertinent questions, and they have a clear answer. But there is an antecedent question that no one in Congress appears to have asked: where, exactly, does the federal government get the power to legislate noon away from the sun?” (07/28/26)
- Dynamic Pricing Bills Can’t Ban Demand
Source: The Daily Economy
by Benjamin Jarmon“Preventing prices from adjusting to demand doesn’t create more stadium seats. It just hands more of the scarcity premium to resellers.” (07/28/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/dynamic-pricing-bills-cant-ban-demand/
- Sorry, data center haters. You’re on the wrong side of history.
Source: USA Today
by Gene Marks“In the 19th century, thousands of miles of railroad were built, and the opposition to them was intense. These weren’t organized environmental groups. They were conservationists, local residents, business owners, landowners, parents, farmers, Native American tribes and taxpayers enraged at how their elected leaders were spending their money. Many in the 19th century didn’t want trains rolling through their backyards. Many today don’t want data center complexes in theirs. You can’t blame them. Where would America be today without its railroads? … More than 150 years later, little has changed. Today’s data centers are yesterday’s railroads. They are the infrastructure behind everything that powers our economy. Railroads moved freight. Data centers move information and make modern commerce possible.” (07/28/26)
- Trump is starving the machine that creates America’s socialist revolutionaries
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek“Socialism is metastasizing like a cancer throughout our country. Though collectivism will inevitably fail, because it always does, it is already causing significant damage to our nation’s political and social fabric. It must be stopped. It is not enough to defeat Socialism at the ballot box. The factories producing this infection — the far-left faculties of our colleges and universities — must be starved of taxpayer money. Thankfully, the Trump White House has taken measures to start that process.” (07/28/26)
- DEI By Any Other Name is Still Just as Sinister
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya“As the New York Times finally begins to question whether progressives went ‘too far’ with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), it is worth reiterating that DEI policies are based on false and destructive premises, and for that reason they should be abandoned altogether. Rather than debating whether DEI has gone ‘too far,’ we should continue to oppose this sinister ideology in its entirety.” (07/28/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/dei-any-other-name-still-just-sinister
- As fine an argument for minarchy as you’ll ever see
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall“It simply is true that if we concentrate power – of any kind – into one place then those who desire power over others will attempt to occupy that position. So as to have that power, d’ye see? The answer to the wrong people gaining such power is not to have the concentrations of power. We are not commenting upon whether Trump is good or bad as a person to have such power. Only upon the logic of the argument as presented. For one of the things we have observed over the decades is that The Guardian is very rarely happy with any occupant of such a position of power. There’s always something bad they’re doing, something good they’re not. That every powerful politician is such a disappointment is an obvious clue to the idea that power should not be so concentrated.” (07/28/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/as-fine-an-argument-for-minarchy-as-youll-ever-see
- Trump is playing chicken with America’s oil reserves
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Hekmat Aboukhater“Back in 1975, reeling from the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, President Gerald Ford signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The law established the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and framed it as a rainy day fund, made ready for the benefit of the American people should a crisis in supply reach us once more. Today, after two consecutive administrations, our rainy day fund has been drawn down to the lowest levels since 1983.” (07/28/26)
- The Myth of Iranian Exceptionalism: Rethinking Iran in the Shadow of the Israel-US War
Source: Informed Comment
by Mojtaba Mahdavi“The Discourse of ‘Iranian exceptionalism’ appears in both negative and positive forms. The negative version must be examined within the broader framework of ‘Middle Eastern exceptionalism’ and its various manifestations. In this view – whether in Orientalist discourses, Orientalism in reverse found in autocratic Islamism or authoritarian secular nationalism, or even in certain strands of cultural relativism – Iran, as part of the Global South, the Muslim world, and the Middle East, is deemed unfit for democracy. … The present analysis, however, is more concerned with a positive version of a particular articulation of Iranian exceptionalism that has been mobilized in support of war and sanctions, and in the normalization of the moral justification of military aggression, including alignment – whether strategic or discursive – with Trumpism and Netanyahu’s far-right, war-criminal regime.” (07/28/26)
https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/iranian-exceptionalism-rethinking.html
- Why 45 Percent of Americans Left Major Parties and Where Independence Leads
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“Hey, did you hear the latest? Gallup put out the results of a poll showing that a record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, while the old Democrat and Republican parties have each dropped 27%. Here in Florida, political independents (NPA) account for 3.3 million registered voters, rapidly catching up to Republican and Democratic Party registrations. Also of note, over half of Gen Z and Millennial voters prefer no party label and tend to register as independent voters, in Florida, known as NPA (No Party Affiliation). But we have seen this movie before. Polling of rising independent voters, yet when they get in the voting booth, they seem compelled to pull for either D or R (Democratic or Republican parties). Perhaps things will change sooner than later.” (07/28/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/why-45-percent-of-americans-left
- The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Makes No Sense
Source: Antiwar.com
by Trita Parsi“Compared to previous negotiations, Riyadh has secured remarkable concessions. It no longer appears to have to normalize relations with Israel as part of the package. It is reportedly not required to sign a traditional Section 123 agreement that would deprive KSA of enrichment technology. And there are no comprehensive IAEA safeguards comparable to those Washington has long insisted upon elsewhere. If these reports hold, Saudi Arabia has achieved what few thought Washington would ever accept.” (07/28/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/trita-parsi/2026/07/27/the-us-saudi-nuclear-deal-makes-no-sense
- What Being a Digital Nomad Taught Me About the Real World
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn“About three years ago I pulled up stakes and moved to the far side of the world. My reasons for this were so personal and idiosyncratic that I don’t talk about this all that much—largely because I don’t feel that there’s much about this decision that would be particularly applicable to anybody else. But one thing you learn in journalism is that you should never let an opportunity to opine go to waste, and having made a really significant, life-changing decision like this one—moving from New York City to, of all the world’s unexpected places, Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan—it seems like sooner or later I should see if I’ve learned anything from it. So what have I learned?” (07/27/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-i-learned-from-moving-to-the
- Parents must hold failed school leaders accountable at the polls
Source: New York Post
by Shirin Yadegar“As parents, when we send our children to school each morning, we trust that the adults in charge are making decisions that put students first. Newly revealed documents suggest that trust may have been misplaced. According to The California Post, LAUSD’s own financial experts warned district leaders that bowing to union demands and approving substantial employee pay raises would put the district on an unsustainable financial path. The board ignored those warnings, and the raises were approved anyway. Now the district faces the very fiscal challenges its own experts predicted.” [editor’s note: If you trust the “adults in charge” of government “schools” with your kids, you’re already skipping merrily down the path of error. Instead of voting harder, homeschool – TLK] (07/27/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/opinion/parents-must-hold-failed-school-leaders-accountable/
- Trump must be held to account for Iran, but don’t expect Congress to act
Source: The Hill
by Harlan Ullman“If the Constitution were working as designed, and if both political parties acted in the best interests of the nation and weren’t obsessed with eviscerating the disloyal opposition, the U.S. skirmish against Iran would have ended. Having promised an immediate victory in what Commander in Chief Donald Trump first called an ‘excursion,’ the U.S. has been drawn deeper into what increasingly appears to be an unwinnable quagmire. So, make no mistake: This is war. But in a war, who has the power to authorize or make a formal declaration of war? Not the president. Only Congress has this responsibility. And it has deserted and fled from its duty.” (07/27/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/foreign-policy/5989637-congress-fails-war-powers-act/
- Arrogance and condescension: How liberty’s enemies view the world
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton“These people (regressives who call themselves ‘progressives,’ Tranzis (transnational socialists or progressives), socialists (democratic or not), Marxists, communists, social justice warriors, etc.) are a pestilence upon the land. (Which land? EVERY land, frankly, not just the States.) In their incredible lack of ability to reason and understand, they believe that everyone else is more stupid than they are. Even while they daily exhibit their stupidity!” (07/27/26)
- Capital Record, episode 313
Source: National Review
“When Economic Convenience Enhances Loneliness.” (07/28/26)
- Cato Podcast, 07/28/26
Source: Cato Institute
“Happy 60th Birthday, Now Pay the Bill.” (07/28/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/happy-60th-birthday-now-pay-bill
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 07/28/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trumpworld Shivs Hypermasculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks Up.” (07/28/26)
- The Bryan Hyde Show, 07/28/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“The current flock camera debate is a strong indicator that we’ve inverted the legal standard of “innocent until proven guilty” to something that resembles ‘guilty until we lose interest in you.'” (07/28/26)
- The Inner Life of Liberalism, episode 4
Source: The Inner Life of Liberalism
“Jason S. Canon and Aaron Ross Powell are joined by Christina Bambrick of the University of Notre Dame to discuss her recent book, Constitutionalising the Private Sphere, as well as virtue, constitutional design, and how the two interact in America and abroad.” (07/27/26)
- Gracearchy with Jim Babka, episode 164
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“Iran War, Why Failure Was Inevitable.” (07/27/26)
https://rumble.com/v7db03y-iran-war-why-failure-was-inevitable-gracearchy-with-jim-babka-164.html